The really nasty song John Lennon wrote about Paul McCartney

When you read about the Beatles from 1967, you understand why the group split up a few years later. They had already stopped touring, so the main focus was on recording and creating the Apple label. In other words, they were primarily trading partners in the end.

In 1968, John Lennon divorced his wife Cynthia and joined Yoko Ono full time. In fact, John began to involve Yoko in recording sessions, which upset George Harrison and Ringo Starr while positively irritating Paul McCartney.

However, the group sinks and produces masterpieces Abbey Road in this state. It was only when the Beatles broke up and began recording solo albums that fans saw the tension appear in the writing of Paul and John's song.

The first shots came on Paul RAM album. When John answered the Imaginethe gloves were loose. This is a brutal withdrawal from Paul after all these years.

John's direct aggression on "How do you sleep?"

To be fair, the public character of the quarrel began with "Too Many People," a title from Paul's second solo album. This song was referring to "too many people preaching practices" targeting John and Yoko. "You took your chance and broke it in two"'s also directed to them.

Paul admitted to it in an interview with Playboy in 1984. Although he knows he took "a little dig" at the couple, he was probably not prepared for John's response later this year- the.

"Then Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise, "sings John in the front row. Right away, he makes Paul a simple songwriter who could not cling to the complexities of the Beatles' last years.

After telling the "straight guys" that Paul only wants to admire him, John tries to thwart all the works of his former band member. "The only thing you did was yesterday," he sings. With this line, John agrees with their idol, Chuck Berry, who said he really admired Paul's "Yesterday" admiration.

While John was singing Paul's "muzak", George was playing guitar on the track.

The insults John had inflicted on Paul with this song had several levels. Obviously, the words that struck him were supposed to be insulting. ("The sound you make is muzak in my ears," for example, speaks for itself.)

But the programming of John's recording session speaks volumes as well. As you will see in the video above, none other than George Harrison plays slide guitar on the track. If George felt good about Paul that day, that would not have been the way to show it.

According to the stories of the recording session, Ringo is introduced to try to persuade John to mitigate the attacks (or to completely remove them). However, he did not succeed, although some say that John's original lyrics were even more cruel than those he had recorded.

Like Paul, John did not put a lot of weight into the strokes of the song to his former band member. "It's not about Paul, but about me," he says in Imagine sessions.

In the late '70s, Paul and John spoke up and realized they were still friends. They had come through periods of tension at the beginning of the decade and recorded words that they probably wanted to recover.

But it was too late to do anything and it left a historic record to explore for Beatles fans.

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